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(CNN)–Looking for a quick vacation read? It doesn’t get any quicker than Michael J. Knowles’ “Reasons To Vote For Democrats” — all of the pages are blank.

Knowles is a Yale graduate and correspondent for the Daily Wire, a conservative website. He self-published the book, which contains only headers and a bibliography, along with 266 empty pages. The book, a clear attempt to troll Democrats, has set the internet on fire and vaulted to the No. 1 bestseller spot on Amazon.

“What’s really great about this book, you can go cover to cover in about 15, 20 seconds,” Knowles said on “Fox & Friends” Thursday.

The book’s Amazon page touts it as “the most exhaustively researched and coherently argued Democrat Party apologia to date.” “‘Reasons To Vote For Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide’ is a political treatise sure to stand the test of time,” the description reads. “A must-have addition to any political observer’s coffee table.” It ends with a one-word review from conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro: “Thorough. . .”

President Trump’s reintroduction of the so-called “travel ban” – a watered-down version of an already milquetoast version of a well-known campaign pledge – has nevertheless provoked the only thing worse than widespread hysteria: widespread hysteria pretending to be surprised.

Par for the course, the neosectarian regressive Left has successfully employed its twin holy grails – the race card and identity-politics – with an emotional appeal to, and romanticization of, the proverbial “immigrant experience.”

America is importing tens of thousands of people from the deadliest half-dozen conflicts in the Middle East. To think that a three-month pause is rational – maybe even obvious – has quickly been framed as bigoted and inhumane. Rather than explain the historically baseless nature of these crocodile tears, I cannot help but think that finding common ground, preferably by way of common sense, would be a more worthwhile pursuit.

Therefore, before attacking the moral integrity and character of others like a social justice David Miscavige, perhaps more level-headed criticism of Trump’s ban should begin by providing logically-deduced answers to the following questions.